She had spent three years in jail in the Netherlands for drug trafficking and forging passports.

Mr. Tobbichi is suspected of helping to plan the embassy plot and of forging passports for others involved.

He lived primarily in Montreal, where he was allegedly forging passports and similar documentation to help militants cross European borders.

He is also charged with forging passports and other travel documents, conspiracy to cause an explosion, conspiracy to murder and possession of firearms.

In 1999 he was freed of charges of forging passports after he had bribed State Department employees to get a passport.

He began with attempts to assist German-Americans who wished to return home to fight by forging passports to get them through the Allied blockade.

Sereni got in trouble with his British superior officers for his Zionist views and was imprisoned briefly for forging passports.

She had worked for the Underground movement, involved in forging passports and papers for people trying to escape across the Channel; had been discovered but saved from death by a German, who had raped her and kept her as his own prisoner.

A member of al-Jihad's "Special Missions Committee" due to his skill at forging passports, Eidarous had fought in the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the 1980s, before accompanying Ayman al-Zawahiri on trips to the Sudan and Yemen.

The theme for the weekend of gruelling tests was espionage and all the participants had to tackle such missions as forging passports and assuming new identities, navigating through woods, building a reactor and a boat, as well as finding the spy, code breaking and building a rocket nose cone to confuse the enemy.